Weekly News Blast | Nov 19 - 26
On November 20, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision that drastically weakens the Voting Rights Act of...
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Matthew Inui
- Nov 21
- 2 min
What it Takes to Win: Pedro Sánchez Reelected as Spanish Prime Minister
On November 16, incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was reelected by the Spanish parliament, concluding a four-month political...
Matthew Inui
- Oct 10
- 5 min
Who Are the 2023 Nobel Prize Winners?
In 1985, chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, best known for inventing dynamite, signed his third and last will. In it, he dedicated his...
Matthew Inui
- Oct 9
- 3 min
Weekly News Blast | Oct 1 - 8
The trial for cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried began on October 3. He faces seven federal charges, including wire fraud, securities...
Matthew Inui
- Oct 4
- 4 min
Weekly News Blast | Sep 24 - Oct 1
On September 26, New York judge Arthur Engoron ruled that former president Donald J. Trump had routinely committed fraud by inflating the...
Matthew Inui
- Sep 18
- 4 min
Weekly News Blast | Sep 10 - 17
Torrents from tropical “medicane” Storm Daniel recently caused unprecedented flooding in Derna, a city in northeastern Libya. According...
Matthew Inui
- Sep 4
- 4 min
Weekly News Blast | Aug 27 - Sep 3
After failing to qualify for the first Republican primary debate last week, presidential candidate Francis Suarez announced on August 29...
Matthew Inui
- Aug 15
- 4 min
No Labels: The Unlikely Fate of Third-Party Candidates in U.S. Politics
As U.S. voters prepare for the 2024 presidential elections, Republican and Democrat candidates are beginning to declare their candidacies...
Matthew Inui
- Aug 7
- 4 min
Weekly News Blast | July 30 - Aug 6
On August 1, the Fitch Ratings agency downgraded the U.S. credit rating from the highest (AAA) to the second highest (AA+). In a statemen...
Matthew Inui
- Jul 3
- 4 min
Weekly News Blast | June 25 - July 2
After a tumultuous mayoral election in Canada’s most populous city, veteran politician Olivia Chow was declared the new mayor-elect of To...
Matthew Inui
- Jun 28
- 4 min
Finland’s New Prime Minister Creates Radically Conservative Government
On June 20, Finland's newly elected parliament voted in favor of appointing National Coalition Party (NCP) leader Petteri Orpo as the nex...
Matthew Inui
- May 28
- 3 min
Supreme Court Lands Blow to EPA’s Jurisdiction Over Wetlands
The ability of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate water pollution has been severely limited by the Supreme Court ...
Matthew Inui
- Mar 7
- 4 min
Weekly News Blast | Feb. 26 - Mar. 5
Since the UK left the European Union (EU) in 2020, Northern Ireland (which remains part of the UK but shares a land border with the indep...
Matthew Inui
- Mar 7
- 4 min
Spy Balloons Spell Uncertainty for Already Fraying U.S.-China Relations
On January 28, a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon was detected in U.S. airspace near the Canadian border. After transiting over Can...
Matthew Inui
- Jan 30
- 4 min
McCarthy Wins The Speaker Election, But At What Cost?
On January 6, exactly two years after protestors stormed Capitol Hill and breached the halls of Congress, Republican Representative Kevin...
Matthew Inui
- Jan 30
- 4 min
Weekly News Blast | Jan. 22-29
This week, former Vice President Mike Pence reported that his staff had found a “small number of documents” from his time in the White Ho...
Matthew Inui
- Dec 29, 2022
- 4 min
Weekly News Blast | Nov. 6-13
On November 6, 2022, the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) convened in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. In the following days, delegates and ...
Matthew Inui
- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
Affidavit for FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid Released
On August 8, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents executed a search warrant at former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Resort ...
Matthew Inui
- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
Weekly News Blast Sept. 11-18
A summary of notable events from the previous week.
1. Ukraine Reclaims Kharkiv Region From Russian Control
On September 11, Russia for...
Matthew Inui
- Aug 6, 2022
- 4 min
Democrats Announce Economic Deal Investing in Energy and Health Care
On July 18, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that he and moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin had compromised on a new...
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